Rainfall Hazards Workshop

Thursday 23 Mar 2023, 09:00 → 19:30 Europe/Brussels

Panoramazaal (The Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels)

Arthur Moraux (RMI), Sylvain Watelet, Edouard Goudenhoofdt (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium), Ricardo Reinoso-Rondinel (KMI & KU-Leuven), Lesley De Cruz (RMI - VUB)

 

The workshop will introduce the three multidisciplinary projects:

 

• DERISC: Deep learning based Extreme Rainfall and flood warnIngs through Seamless foreCasting. BELSPO-funded BRAIN-BE project, partners: RMI, KU Leuven, VUB, VMM.
• EXPRIMA: Probabilistic nowcasting and forecasting of extreme precipitation for impact-based warning systems. BELSPO-funded FED-tWIN position between RMI and KU Leuven
• Flash floods within the RMI-SPW cooperation agreement

 

 

Their common goal is to improve and integrate weather forecasts with impact-based warning systems for extreme precipitation and floods. After introducing these projects, our stakeholders have the floor.

 

We invite and welcome associated stakeholders and national and international experts to strengthen our cooperation, guide our research and shape our products related to precipitation observation, forecasts and warnings. Such a setup will allow the stakeholders to communicate their needs and the scientists to collect information to better meet these needs with our research and future operational products.

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09:15 → 09:30 Welcome and Introduction: Badge pick-up

Convener: Lesley De Cruz (RMI - VUB)

09:30 → 09:40 Welcome and Introduction

Convener: Lesley De Cruz

09:40 → 10:00 Precipitation Observation and Forecasting: Radar products

Conveners: Edouard Goudenhoofdt, Sylvain Watelet

10:00 → 10:30 Precipitation Observation and Forecasting: Now- and forecasting products, seamless prediction

Conveners: Michiel Van Ginderachter (KMI), Lesley De Cruz (RMI - VUB)

10:30 → 10:40 Precipitation Observation and Forecasting: Q&A

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:25 New projects: EXPRIMA, hydraulics / hydrological models

Conveners: Ricardo Reinoso-Rondinel (KMI & KU-Leuven), Patrick Willems (KU-Leuven), Lesley De Cruz (RMI - VUB)

11:25 → 11:50 New projects: DERISC project

Conveners: Arthur Moraux (RMI), Simon De Kock (VUB), Lesley De Cruz (RMI - VUB)

11:50 → 12:00 New projects: Q&A

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:10 Survey: Rainfall hazards survey

Survey Site

13:10 → 13:40 Scientific advisors: MeteoSwiss

Convener: Dr Lionel Moret (MeteoSwiss)

13:40 → 14:40 Stakeholders: Multi-presentations (click "Detailed view" above to see the presentations' titles)

Conveners: Inge De Jongh, Michaël Antoine, Philippe Dierickx

13:40 FEWS-VMM, an impact based approach on flood forecasts

Speaker: Inge De Jongh

14:00 Brussels, an area prone to pluvial flooding. Observations, planned actions and development needs

Speaker: Michaël Antoine

14:20 Improving communication on flood risks in Wallonia in the face of extreme rainfall

Speaker: Philippe Dierickx

14:40 → 14:50 Stakeholders: Q&A

14:50 → 15:20 Stakeholders: Multi-presentations (click "Detailed view" above)

Conveners: David Dehenauw, Guillaume Dervaux

14:50 RMI’s weather office during a rainfall disaster

Speaker: David Dehenauw

15:05 The Belgian National Crisis Center

Speaker: Guillaume Dervaux

15:20 → 15:30 Stakeholders: Q&A

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 16:45 Stakeholders: Multi-presentations (click "Detailed view" above)

Conveners: Maarten Deschamps, Ronny Van Looveren, Stefan Kroll

16:00 (Flood) Forecasting @ Flanders Hydraulics

Speaker: Maarten Deschamps

16:15 City of Antwerp: need for rainfall nowcasting within the adaption strategy

Speaker: Ronny Van Looveren

16:30 Smart control of urban drainage assets using rainfall forecast data

Speaker: Stefan Kroll

16:45 → 17:30 Stakeholders: Q&A, Open discussion, concluding remarks

Convener: All participants

17:30 → 19:00 Drinks @ Plein Public

Address: Mont des Arts, 1000 Bruxelles
https://pleinpubliek.be/brussels/

Speaker: All participants